1. White Leghorns.
2. White Wyandottes.
3. Rhode Island Reds.
4. Any other Sitting Breeds.
5. Any other Non-Sitting Breeds.
6. Championship (any Breed).
7. Great Eastern Railway Employees."
_Poultry, for the Farmer and Fancier._
We shall treat the porters at Liverpool Street with more respect in future.
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MICHAELMAS AND THE GOOSE.
(_Lines written under the threat of a Coal-strike_).
You for whose Mass by immemorial use,
When Autumn enters on his annual cycle,
We offer up the fatted goose
Mid fragrant steam of apple-juice,
Hear our appeal, O Michael!
Sir, do not try our piety too sore,
Bidding us sacrifice--a wrench how cruel!--
Her whom we prize all geese before--
The one that lays that precious ore,
Our priceless daily fuel.
Her output, as it is, shows want of will
To check the slackness growing rife and rifer;
And it would fall far lower still
(Being, indeed, reduced to _nil_)
If they should go and knife her.
Yet there are men who press the slaughterers' claim
In sympathetic language, talking loosely;
Among them Mr.
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